[bajabaja]

Any suggestions of the names of small Texas towns where I can buy a few acres? Prefer some green pasture land over desert, and I can pay cash. (Really.)

Yes, I was born in Los Angeles. But, well, you know . . .

[arthurus]

People vote with their feet but in their new homes they miss the wonderful things that government did for them in California and set about to improving their new state to be just like California. They do not connect the ubiquity of the inefficient “services” and the number of bureaucrats required to oversee the huge number of lesser civil servants with the ever rising taxes. They recreate the old situation and then are nonplussed that their new state, while improving in atmosphere and services is sucking all the dollars out of their bank accounts and the crime rate is rising.

[blam]

I retired from Texas Instruments at the end of 1994 and moved to coastal Alabama.

If Texas ever begins to split away from the US, I'll skidaddle back to Texas, pronto.

[Orange1998]

"But in his 10 years as governor, the longest in the state's history, Texas has been teaching some lessons to which the rest of the nation should pay heed". ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Todays headline

$11 Billion Budget Shortfall Projected Official: Shortfall Could Reach $15 Billion

POSTED: Monday, March 8, 2010 UPDATED: 4:47 pm CST March 8, 2010 AUSTIN, Texas -- The Texas Legislature will face a budget shortfall of at least $11 billion when it meets to write the next state budget in 2011, a key state official said Monday.

The shortfall is the projected difference between available revenue and the cost of maintaining services at their current levels in the next two-year budget. The shortfall is mainly a result of lower-than-expected sales tax receipts.